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Four dead, suspect arrested in rare shooting in Japan Japanese authorities said on Friday they arrested a 31-year-old man in a rural area for suspected murder after four people were killed in a rare shooting and stabbing incident involving a 12-hour stand-off with police. The suspect had holed up in his house after shooting two police officers who arrived at the scene in response to a report that a woman had been stabbed, the head of the Nagano prefectural police told a televised press conference. He used what appeared to be a hunting rifle in the shooting, he said. The suspect is the son of the head of the Nakano city council, public broadcaster NHK reported. The two police officers and the woman were taken to hospital and pronounced dead within hours, the police chief, Iwao Koyama, said. "This is a heinous crime that has aroused great fear in the residents of the prefecture and society at large," he said. read more